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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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The Relics of Rome. › Of Purgatory.The Reliques of Rome. › Of Purgatorye.
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And some souls are punished there a long space:1 some, thirty years, some an hundred: some, a thousand, more or less: some, unto the end of the world. Again in the treatise called in Latin, Stella Clericorum, we find this written: The fire, and other pains that are in Purgatory, are more grievous and more bitter, than all the pains of the Martyrs, and all kinds of torments, that could be imagined and invented of the Tyrants in this world. And the souls of them that are thus punished, do far excel the multitude of all them that live in this world.2 And therefore saith Austen: He knoweth not, what he asketh, which desireth Purgatory. O God how sweet a thing shall it be to make satisfaction in this world?3 I say, that it is ⟨image 229⟩more grievous to be in Purgatory one twinkling of an eye, than all the pain, which blessed Laurence had upon the Gridiron. Therefore one tear issuing out of a pure heart doth purge more, than ten years in Purgatory: & yet between two evils the lessest is to be chosen. And therefore the souls that are in Purgatory,4 cry with Job on this man ner, and say: Miseremini mei, Miseremini mei, saltem vos amici mei: Quia manus domini tetigit me. That is to say: Have pity on me, have pity on me, at the least ye that are my friends: for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.
And some soules are punished there a longe space:1 some, thyrtie yeares, some an hundred: some, a thousand, more or lesse: some, vnto the ende of the world. Agayn in the treatise called in Latin, Stella Clericorum, we finde this written: The fyre, and other paynes that are in Purgatorye, are more greuous and more bytter, than all the paynes of the Martyrs, and all kyndes of tormentes, that coulde be imagyned and inuented of the Tyrauntes in thys worlde. And the soules of them that are thus punished, do farre excell the multitude of all them that lyue in this worlde.